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The Failures in the Ohio School Shootings
Tweet Share on Facebook February 29, 2012 Comment (5)When I was a little girl, my mother used to sit in her car directly across from where I waited for the bus to go to our town's public school. I was embarrassed and wanted her to leave. The kids made fun of me. The bus stop was around the corner from our house, why was my mother so over protective? What was she worried about? What was she afraid of?
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Mitt Romney's Fantasy Tax Cuts
Tweet Share on Facebook February 29, 2012 Comment (4)Let's take a trip back to 1992. Then-Gov. Bill Clinton, in his campaign manifesto, said: "Middle-class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate."
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Olympia Snowe Retirement Is Devastating for the Senate
Tweet Share on Facebook February 29, 2012 Comment (13)There are people in Washington about whom one says, "Is there anyone who doesn't like and respect this person?" Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe is one of those people. And the only thing sadder than Snowe's decision to retire from the Senate is that hardly anyone in the nation's capital is described in such deservedly reverential terms anymore.
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Objections to Obama's Contraceptive Mandate Keep Building
Tweet Share on Facebook February 29, 2012 Comment (7)The pushback against the Obama administration's assault on religious liberty continues. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Archbishop of New York, recently signed on to a statement explicitly rejecting the new federal mandate that employers make available, either directly or indirectly, healthcare insurance that provides for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and other artificial contraceptives despite the dictates of the church.
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Rick Santorum Is a 'Snob' by His Own Definition
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2012 Comment (6)So Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, and a whole bunch of other people in politics want to be president.
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GOP's Sexist Mad Men Worldview Threatens Women's Health
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2012 Comment (12)LAKEWOOD, COLO.—The new season of Mad Men is upon us, but my mother, a fan of PBS and quality television, still can't bring herself watch it. Mad Men brings back too many bad memories for her of a time when women were second-class citizens, belittled on a daily basis. Many Republicans, on the other hand, seem to view Mad Men and its ritual humiliation of women as an instructive documentary. The Republican presidential field is in a race to the bottom on who can most obnoxiously turn back the clock to the pre-Griswold 1965. House Republicans don't think women are qualified to testify on their own healthcare.
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Skipping Mitt Romney's Pity Party
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2012 Comment (2)Evidently, former Gov. Mitt Romney is feeling a little sorry for himself on the morning of a surprisingly tight Michigan primary.
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Russ Feingold: Obama 'Never a Left-Wing Progressive'
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2012 Comment (5)Russ Feingold brought his new book and refreshing Wisconsinite ways to the Washington book store Politics and Prose the other night. The buoyant scene felt straight out of Madison, the capital city where the Progressive Party was born. The former Democratic senator, who served 18 years and lost his re-election race in 2010, was treated as if he were, well, a Jewish Jimmy Stewart. Getting fired by angry voters in the Tea Party election of 2010 seemed a badge of honor in this throng.
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Mitt Romney Hits New Low With Rick Santorum Takedown
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2012 Comment (3)On the eve of the Michigan and Arizona GOP primaries, it appears that, despite some last-minute Democratic subterfuge, former Gov. Mitt Romney will eke out a victory in the state of his birth.
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Rick Santorum Should Not Apologize for Compromise
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2012 Comment (2)Rick Santorum has been taking a lot of heat recently for saying he regretted his vote for the No Child Left Behind law, and explaining that he "made a mistake." Former President Bush wanted the law—which ushered in unprecedented federal authority into elementary and secondary education—and "when you're part of the team, sometimes you take one for the team," the former Pennsylvania senator said at a debate in Arizona.
